I ...understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn't.

So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate?

I have always envied people who believe strongly in religion, people who could face a tragedy by praying and know that it would be all right. As unscientific as it seems, well, it would be nice to lay the responsibilities and pain on someone else's larger shoulders.

I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you.

I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend.

Music therapy, to me, is music performance without the ego. It's not about entertainment as much as its about empathizing. If you can use music to slip past the pain and gather insight into the workings of someone else's mind, you can begin to fix a problem.

The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.